Country of Warm Snow by Mervyn Taylor
PBS Autumn Recommendation 2020 Virginia Astley With poems from Catherine Ayres

With poems from Catherine Ayres

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Country of Warm Snow by Mervyn Taylor <br><b>PBS Autumn Recommendation 2020</b> Virginia Astley With poems from Catherine AyresIn Country of Warm Snow, the author seeks to represent the duality of a life lived in two places at once. It is the life of an immigrant who has been in this country for fifty odd years, whose heart, when hes in one place, yearns for the other. To combat the geographical dislocation, there arises the invention of an impossible land, a country of the imagination, a snow that is beautiful and warm. I dont believe Ill read any work this year with more